everyone has 13 regular season games.  top 4 division winners make the playoffs, as well as the 2 teams with the next best records in each conference.  so that's 6 teams total making the playoffs, 3 from each conference.  the 1 seed in each conference will get a bye in week 14, while the other division winner & the wild card will play each other.  the conference championships occur in week 15 & the championship occurs in week 16.  since we're not having any games on week 17 (because we're afraid of all of the good players getting benched), there will be no 1-game tiebreaker weeks.  all tiebreakers will be determined by head-to-head record.  i'll write a separate msg about how tiebreakers are broken.